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Rosemarie Trockel is a German contemporary artist currently living in Cologne. She began her career in the 1970s, addressing issues of sexuality, feminism, and the human body. Her work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Fondation Beyeler in Rien and the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg. In 2011 she was awarded the Kaiserring from the city of Goslar, which is one of the best-known prizes for contemporary art in the world. 

Félix González-Torres was a Cuban-born American visual artist. He was a member of the collective Group Material, alongside artist Doug Ashford, Julie Ault, Karen Ramspacher, and Tim Rollins, work collaboratively, and advocating for cultural activism and community education. He died due to AIDS in 1996 at the age of 38. 

Retrospectives of his work have been organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (1995), which traveled to the Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, and Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; the Sprengel Museum in Hannover, Germany (1997); the Serpentine Gallery in London (2000); the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City (2010); Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art in Middlesbrough; the Museum of Modern Art in New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art; the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC; the FLAG Art Foundation in New York (2009); WIELS; Fondation Beyeler; and the Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt in 2010-2011.

German artist Walter Dahn is a leading artist in the group Mülheimer Freiheit along with Jiri Georg Dokoupil, Hans Peter Adamski, and Peter Bömmels, developed in response to "over-intellectual" minimalist and conceptual art movements, concentrating on neo-expressionism instead. Dahn works with painting and photography, and has also worked on sound art. 

New York bases artist Donald Baechler was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1956. Both a painter and a sculptor, Baechler's work was first shown in 1980 at Artists Space, New York and Studio Cannaviello, Milan, Italy, and now has been show multiple times at the Whitney Biennial, along with shows at Art + Leisure (2014), Cheim & Read and Tony Shafrazi. 

Selected works are in the permanent collections at Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Modern Art, among other museums both in America and internationally. 
 

Born in the former Czechoslovakia in 1954, Dokoupil currently lives in Germany. Along with Walter Dahn, Dokoupil was a member of the Mülheimer Freiheit, creating neo-expressionist work.His work has been shown at Neue Galerie, Berlin; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart; The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul; Kunstmuseum Horsens, Denmark; The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL; Société General Collection, Paris; Migros Museum, Zurich; and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Peter Nagy 

Rob Scholte is a Dutch contemporary artist born in 1958, currently living and working in Bergen. His work has been shown in Galerie Witteveen Amsterdam (2004, 2005, 2006), Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen (2005), Groninger Museum (2002); Fries Museum (2000), Paleis Huis ten Bosch, Nagasaki (1995), Sprengel Museum, Hannover (1994), Grey Art Gallery, New York (1993), Museum Van Bommel-Van Dam, Venlo (1992), Kunsthaus Hamburg (1991), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1990), Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (1989), Aperto, Venice (1988), Boijmans Van Beuningen (1988);Documenta, Kassel (1987), São Paulo Art Biennial (1985), Venice Biennale (1990).

Mark Dagley (b. 1957, Washington D.C.) is a visual artist who studied painting and sculpture and at the Corcoran School of Art and painting, video and electronic music at Boston Museum School. 

Dagley is a member of the American Abstract Artists and a student of classical guitar virtuoso Gohar Vardanyan. He is best known for his geometric paintings which have been displayed at galleries, foundations, and museums throughout the United States and Europe. His first solo exhibition took place in 1986, at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery. Paintings from this exhibition were purchased by the German chocolate manufacturer Dr. Peter Ludwig and by the Eli Broad Family Foundation. During the 1980’s, Dagley exhibited frequently in Amsterdam, Madrid, Düsseldorf, Milan and many other European cities. 

In 1993 Dagley had his first Museum exhibition at the Kunstverein St. Gallen, Switzerland. In the same year, he received his first major commission from Hoffman/LaRoche Pharmaceuticals in Switzerland: two wall reliefs, nine-foot square, which were installed in their new office building outside of Basel. 

His work can be found in the collections of the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, the Musée des Beaux Arts La Chaud de Fonds, Bloomingdales Corporation, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Buenos Aires and Muzeum umění Olomouc, Czech Republic. 

His most recent exhibitions were at, MACBA (2015), Galerie Caesar (2015), The Museum of Geometric & Madi Art (2013), Minus Space (2012)